Split Interests: Modern Latin American Architecture in Postwar European Magazines

Abstract

This article aims to go past the monographic studies of individual magazines in order to
present a general analysis of the Latin American content covered in the European media in
the decades following World War Two. Along with the magazines from the continent’s most
important publishing centers – France, England and Italy – it also studies the Spanish media,
which was distinguished from the rest by its explicit preference for Mexican architecture over
Brazilian architecture, the latter of which was of more interest in other European countries.